What have you done to your Tacoma today? 1st Gen Edition

I do, I have a Pioneer FH-X700BT.

 

Finally got around to finishing up the Satoshi

 

x2 Pioneer DEH-P9400BH

 

Dibs on TRD headers and 2.1 pulley!

 

x3 Pioneer DEH-P8400BH

 

Bluetooth is usually just another source input you can select. With an automatic ring though if your call gets a call.

 

Had some fun with it. Went through one of my local trails alone (dumb idea but didn't get stuck luckily). Got done the trail, washed it, went to a buddies house with a lifted chevy. He wanted to try it after that, so went through it again and now it's dirty again The mud holes were significantly deeper than I thought, it was my first time on this trail. Went above the diff breather so I'm gonna have to check that out now. Ah well, worth it. Got snowed on big time on the way home too, 2 inches in my front yard and it's only October But bald mud tires on the rear + snow was a bit sketchy. Good times

 

SCary?!! more like awesome. When I go over tiny bumps or turn at speed my back end jumps around like i got a broken shock!... oh wait i do have a broken rear shock

 

I still have a factory shock on the rear. Over 200,000 on it. Yup one the other was cut off. Talk about

 

^ looks good! I thought I was in the clear when I got my 15s on. Kept hearing a clanging noise and then I got vibes. Turned out my caliper destroyed the sticky weights. So look out for that along with other things

 

Gotta have a 95-97 (maybe some other years) to wear 15s without any worries.

 

The ones I've got on my 03 have been great ever since I went to hammer on weights. I don't like those weights but they work. Have had no issues ever since. They're American Racing atlas AR160 15x10s. The offset is way off though, and before my lift they rubbed really bad when turning. No issues now though

 

I have heard you can run them if they are spaced out far enough, the caliper just needs to be positioned in a place of high clearance.

On a separate note, why don't you like hammer on weights? It's the only thing I wish was different about my F5s, I like the hammer on weights because it doesn't take 50,000 of them to balance big tires.

 

You can see them. That's my only complaint haha. They work better in my experience. And yeah, there was about 25 of the sticky ones on my front wheels before the caliper spat them out.

 

I'm convinced the guys at Costco gave me the most out of balance KO2s they had in stock because I gave them a hard time about not putting bigger tires on vehicles. (They refused to put them on my truck even though they are only 1.22in bigger than stock, so I had them just mount the tires on the rims and I put them on the truck) But my front and rear drivers side tires need like 15 sticky weights.

 

Ready for tear down.

 

There really isn't anywhere around here chain wise that does wheel/tire related things. It's all shade tree mechanics and dealers. There's one tire shop but every single time I go there they F up. So I just trust my local mechanic, he uses the hammer on ones. And he has no problem putting bigger tires on haha. He mounted some 31s for the rear on my old crown vic, the front sat at least 3 inches lower than the back haha.

 

I live in a fairly rural little town so the local Les Schwab is actually full of guys that aren't complete dinguses and they always get my tires perfectly balanced with the least amount of weights (by rotating the tire on the rim to counter balance each other). But since I had these tires mounted at Costco I'm kinda stuck with them because I get balances for free. :/

 

Must be nice to have stores around you The closest store / gas station to me is 8 miles. And the closest mechanic is 13 miles. Living in the middle of nowhere blows. It's not even quiet either, my neighbors kid has a TTR90 with no muffler on it that he rides 24/7 because they don't make him go to school. It's one thing when the kid is riding the TTR but half the time he just rides to the end of his driveway (closest he can get to my house) and revs the piss out of it and does brake stands over and over. And the adults have a subaru forester with nothing but the manifold they like to beat on a lot in their field, I seriously can't believe how loud subarus are with no exhaust haha. But that free balancing thing is a pretty sweet deal. One of my buddies just recently got a snap on spin balancer so I'm gonna have to try that soon.

 

Good ol' Vermont. Land of the free (assholes), home of the enslaved (neighbors of said assholes)!